‘Sister Act’ comes to the Fabulous Fox

Published
12:00 am CST, Thursday, November 14, 2013

ST. LOUIS — The get-up-and-shout “Sister Act” comes to the Fox Theatre for the first time.

“Sister Act” is the story of Deloris Van Cartier, a wannabe diva whose life takes a surprising turn when she witnesses a crime and the cops hide her in the last place anyone would think to look — a convent. Under the suspicious watch of Mother Superior, Deloris helps her fellow sisters find their voices as she unexpectedly rediscovers her own. “Sister Act” opens Tuesday and runs through Sunday, Dec. 1, with the exception of Thanksgiving Day with no performances that day.

“It’s about people from very different walks of life getting to know each other and supporting each other in their journey and becoming friends at the end,” said actor Hollis Resnik, of Chicago, who plays Mother Superior. “It’s a wonderful script, very clever, very funny; St. Louis is going to love it.”

Resnik landed the role of Mother Superior from an audition tape, which is unusual for most stage actors.

She was doing “Angels in America” in Chicago when she got the call asking her to audition for “Sister Act,” but being engaged in the play she had no time to travel to the East Coast.

“I put myself on tape and did literally a five-minute audiotape and they called,” she said. “It’s very rare to get a job from a tape. I’d had auditions with the director before way back when.”

“Sister Act” features original music by eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken, who also did “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Little Mermaid” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”

The scenes are set in the 1970s and the disco-pop score carries the theme.

Comedienne and an outspoken co-host of “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg produced the five-time Tony Award nominated “Sister Act,” along with Stage Entertainment and Troika Entertainment. Goldberg originated the role of Deloris in the 1992 comedy of the same name.